Sources of Chinese Tradition, Vol 1: From Earliest Times to 1600
By: William Theodore de Bary
3.95
Format: 998 pages, Paperback
A collection of seminal primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of C…
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1. The Histories
By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola
4.01
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more
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"Hippocleides doesn't care."-Herodotus, The Histories
"So much, then, for the fish."-Herodotus, The Histories
"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."-Herodotus, The Histories
"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."-Herodotus, The Histories
2. The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
By: Ross King
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
With a novelist's skill and the insight of an historian, bestselling author Ross King recalls a sem… read more
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3. Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook
By: Patricia Buckley Ebrey
3.79
Format: 524 pages, Paperback
Chinese Civilization sets the standard for supplementary texts in Chinese history courses. With new… read more
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4. Tao Te Ching
By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe
4.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more
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"The heart that gives, gathers."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
5. Twelfth Night
By: William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays w… read more
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"a raven's heart within a dove."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
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"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
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6. Yvain, or, The Knight with the Lion
By: Chrétien de Troyes , Ruth Harwood Cline
3.56
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
This verse translation of Yvain; or, The Knight with the Lion brings to life a fast-paced yet remar… read more
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7. Don Quixote
By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a k… read more
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8. The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han
By: Mark Edward Lewis
3.82
Format: None pages,
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9. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann
4.07
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
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"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
10. The Tale of Genji
By: Royall Tyler , Murasaki Shikibu
3.90
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
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11. The Analects
By: Confucius , D.C. Lau
3.20
Format: 168 pages,
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12. The Idiot
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Joseph Frank , Alan Myers , Anna Brailovsky
4.21
Format: 667 pages, Paperback
Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin find… read more
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"I'm drunk but truthful."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"Beauty will save the world."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"The Russian soul is a dark place."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"She is passion embodied, a flower of melodrama in eternal bloom."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
13. The Cambridge Illustrated History of China
By: Patricia Buckley Ebrey , None
4.67
Format: 40 pages,
To compress 8,000 years of a civilization's life into a single volume is a daunting task, but Unive… read more
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14. Bushido: The Soul of Japan. A Classic Essay on Samurai Ethics
By: Nitobe Inazō
3.29
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Code of the warrior. The traditional japanese text as written by Dr. Inazo Nitobe in 1904 edite… read more
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15. Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History
By: Nicola Di Cosmo
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
This comprehensive history of the northern frontier of China through the first millennium B.C. deta… read more
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16. Heart of Darkness
By: Joseph Conrad
3.99
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more
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17. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
By: Immanuel Kant , Christine M. Korsgaard , Mary J. Gregor
4.27
Format: 197 pages, paper
Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristo… read more
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18. Ivanhoe
By: Walter Scott
3.55
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Ivanhoe(1819) was the first of Scott's novels to adopt a purely English subject and was also his fi… read more
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19. Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart
By: Chrétien de Troyes , Burton Raffel , None
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In this outstanding new translation of Lancelot, Burton Raffel brings to English language readers t… read more
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20. The Search For Modern China
By: Jonathan D. Spence
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrativ… read more
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21. Heart of the Sun Warrior (The Celestial Kingdom, #2)
By: Sue Lynn Tan
4.03
Format: 466 pages, Hardcover
After her perilous quest to free her mother, Xingyin thrives once more in the tranquility of her ho… read more
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22. The God and the Gumiho (Fate's Thread, #1)
By: Sophie Kim
4.12
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
In this sly and dazzling contemporary fantasy, the most notorious nine-tailed fox in Korea pairs up… read more
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23. The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
By: Ross King
3.98
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings--the dazzli… read more
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24. She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)
By: Shelley Parker-Chan
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
Two-time British Fantasy Award WinnerAstounding Award WinnerLambda Literary Award FinalistHugo Awar… read more
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"I can do this. I can learn. I can survive."-Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)
"Pure emotions are the luxury of children and animals"-Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)
"What I want has nothing to do with who wins." -Ouyang"-Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)
"With sufficient competence, there's no need of flattery"-Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)
25. A Thousand Steps into Night
By: Traci Chee
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
From New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, Traci Chee, comes a Japane… read more
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"He was meandering along one of the paths, watching the fire crackle around him as if it were an opera—stirring, magnificent—and he, its only patron."-Traci Chee, A Thousand Steps into Night
"To anyone else, the appearance of the village might have been cause for alarm, but to Miuko, who had only ever known such deterioration, it was beautiful in its ordinariness."-Traci Chee, A Thousand Steps into Night
"She could not help but think of her mother and how much she would have loved it, how she would have devoured every sight, every souund, every phantasmagoric scent wafting up from the volcanic fissure…"-Traci Chee, A Thousand Steps into Night
"Once, at Ogawa Castle, Miuko had thought him lonely; but now, seeing him encircled by such unrepentant destruction, she understood that he could never be lonely, because he did not desire company. No…"-Traci Chee, A Thousand Steps into Night
26. Song of Silver, Flame Like Night (Song of the Last Kingdom, #1)
By: Amélie Wen Zhao
3.80
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
In a fallen kingdom, one girl carries the key to discovering the secrets of her nation’s past—and u… read more
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"A sword's purpose may be determined by its wielder, but take the weapon away entirely, and neither the merciful nor the cruel may draw blood with it."-Amélie Wen Zhao, Song of Silver, Flame Like Night (Song of the Last Kingdom, #1)
"What use are tears? Ying had murmured to her once, back when they had just crossed their twelfth cycle of life and the wounds of Lan’s losses still cut deep every night. The dead will neither feel th…"-Amélie Wen Zhao, Song of Silver, Flame Like Night (Song of the Last Kingdom, #1)
"What use are tears? Ying had murmured to her once, back when they had just crossed their twelfth cycle of life and the wounds of Lan’s losses still cut deep every night. The dead will neither feel th…"-Amélie Wen Zhao, Song of Silver, Flame Like Night (Song of the Last Kingdom, #1)
27. The Scarlet Alchemist (The Scarlet Alchemist, #1)
By: Kylie Lee Baker
4.06
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Zilan dreams of becoming a royal alchemist, of providing for her family by making alchemical gold a… read more
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"Your ducks weren't rude to me. I don't want to eat them." "I do." Yufei whispered..."-Kylie Lee Baker, The Scarlet Alchemist (The Scarlet Alchemist, #1)
"I am offended,"" he said, making a show of crossing his arms and turning away. ""I may forgive you if you kiss me, though."-Kylie Lee Baker, The Scarlet Alchemist (The Scarlet Alchemist, #1)
"Ahead of us, a man was pulling a cart of cabbages out into the street. I grabbed three chunks of amethyst in one hand and slammed my other palm into the cart. It burst in to wood splinters, cabbage l…"-Kylie Lee Baker, The Scarlet Alchemist (The Scarlet Alchemist, #1)
"Uncle Fan had busied himself making lots of míngqì to bury them with—soft baby lambs and tiny ponies and wise teachers. They will be well taken care of, where they’re going, he’d said. My cousins gre…"-Kylie Lee Baker, The Scarlet Alchemist (The Scarlet Alchemist, #1)
28. A Venom Dark and Sweet (The Book of Tea, #2)
By: Judy I. Lin
3.61
Format: 352 pages, None
The enthralling conclusion to Judy I. Lin's Book of Tea duology—A Magic Steeped in Poison and A Ven… read more
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"The bond of family is a kind of magic all its own."-Judy I. Lin, A Venom Dark and Sweet (The Book of Tea, #2)
"To be human is to be vulnerable. To be human is to have more power than the gods will ever wield"-Judy I. Lin, A Venom Dark and Sweet (The Book of Tea, #2)
"We all believe we are the center of the universe, but we forget we are merely specks among the stars. Moving through the streams of possible futures, sometimes colliding."-Judy I. Lin, A Venom Dark and Sweet (The Book of Tea, #2)
"Magic does not belong to Shénnóng. It is not unique to one god or the other. Those are human terms, human rules. All magic is the same. It is only the vessel that shapes it."-Judy I. Lin, A Venom Dark and Sweet (The Book of Tea, #2)
29. Sources of Chinese Tradition, Vol 1: From Earliest Times to 1600
By: William Theodore de Bary
3.95
Format: 998 pages, Paperback
A collection of seminal primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of C… read more
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30. Japanese Art (World of Art)
By: Joan Stanley-Baker
3.50
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
"A long-needed presentation of Japanese art that concisely offers inclusive coverage from prehistor… read more
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"The entrenched interests of the regional nobility prevented the proper functioning of a government built upon ethical practice. While high-minded scholars often called for reforms, their memoranda ca…"-Joan Stanley-Baker, Japanese Art (World of Art)
31. White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness
By: Nicholas Mirzoeff
3.59
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the author of How to See the World comes a new history of white supremacist ways of seeing—and… read more
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